Toy.



` No. 843,642. PATENTED FEB. l2, 1907.

P. F. VAN HALDEP TOY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG* 27, 1906.

No. 843,642. PATENTED PEB. 12, 1907.

P. P. VAN HALDER.

TOY. ABPLIOATION' FILED AUG. 27, v1906.

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.wun'uu'an sauras earner ersten PETER F, van HALDER, OF SHARON, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY.

Specicat'ion of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12` 1907.

Applicants sied August 27,1906.v sain Nt. 332.226.

.To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that l, PETER F. VAN HAL- DER, a citizen of the `United States, residing at Sharon, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention-,is to provide lan improved construction of toy which is embodied in the form of a wheelbarrow containing an endless web on which are depicted various amusing or educational scenes or the like designed to appear in succession at a lsight-opening'in the body of the wheelbared out in the appended claim.

For a ull description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is "to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved toy wheelbarrow. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating one means of journaling the rollers in the casing of theV device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views or the drawingsby the same reference characters.

The body 1 of the toy wheelbarrow is in the form of an inclosed box or casing supported when traveling upon handles 2, secured-to its bottom and nonverging toward their fr nt ends, the said body being provided a its rear corners with legs 3, bywnich it may be supported when at rest, 'lo the front ends of the handles 2 journal bearings or boi/rings 4 are secured, the same being located, preferably, in the median longitudinal plane of the box or casing 1` A shaft or axle 5 is journaled in said boxings et and is extended at one side beyond one side of the box or casing- 1, where it is provided at its end with a pulley 6. The traveling Awheel 7 is mounted on the axle 5 between the boxings 4 and may be provided with the opening shown or other fanciful configurations to add to the attractiveness of the toy.

An endless driving-belt 8 travels around the pulley @and also around a pulley 9 on the projecting end of the roller 10, mounted in the forward lower corner of the box. By this arrangement as the wheelbarrow is moved along the rotation of the Wheel 7 will, through the instrumentality ofthe axle 5 and the pulleys 6 and 9 and belt 8, cause the'rotation of the roller l() within the casing.

An endless web 11, on which are painted or otherwise depicted amusing or instructive scenes or advertisements or the like, is ini tended to travel in the box or casing 1, so

that the pictures will arrive successively at a sight-opening 12 in the box or casing, said opening being preferably located at the rear upper corner of the casing and `extending transversely thereof in a slightly-oblique panel 13. The web 11 may be passed around upper and lower series of idle-rollers 14, so as to obtain the maximum amount of web with the'given size of the box, and said web also passes around the roller 10, which is the main or'driving roller, and thence back again to repeat the operation continuously, as clearly indicated by the longitudinal sectional View of the drawings.

From the foregoing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that l have provided a simple and inexpensive form of toy embodied in a wheelbarrow construction which will al'l'ord considerable amusement or instruction,' as the case may' be, and which may be easily manufactured and which will operate elliciently to cause the views to arrive successively at the sight-opening 12 as the child or other operator trundles the device along.

As one means of journaling the rollers in` the casing 1, reference is to be had to Fig. 5

of the accompanying drawings, in which `it will be seen that -gudgeons or pins 15 are driven through the sides of the box or casing 1 and into the ends of the rollers. It is to be understood, however, that any desired means may be employed for this purpose.

.Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as n'ew is The herein described, toy embodying a closed casing provided with a sight-opening, forwardly-converging handles secured to the be ttom of the casing and on which the latter is mounted, the said'handles projecting for-` ward of the casing, an axle journaled be- IOC rio

tween the front ends of said handles, a trevtion between said pulleys, and a, web mountxo eling Wheel mounted on seid axle, the said ed to travel around said rollers.

' easing, pulleys on the projected ends of the axle extending transversely and projectingA In testimony whereof I aHX my signature at one end beyond one side of the easing, a in presence of-two witnesses.

series of rollers mounted in the casing, one of said rollers projecting out of one side of the W PETER WAN HALDER' [L' S'].

tnesses:

said roller and axle, seid pulleys being inl GEORGE LEIPHEIMER, alinement with eachother, a driving eonnee-'l W. A. MCKNIGHT. 

